Automated generation of image products for Mars Exploration Rover mission tactical operations

摘要: During the period of development prior to January, 2004 landing Mars Exploration Rover (MER) project's twin robotic vehicles on Mars, mission operations personnel recognized need for timely generation and delivery camera image products rover traverse planning purposes. The task was assigned Multimission Image Processing Laboratory (MIPL), an element Jet Propulsion (JPL). This paper reports ensuing design that involved sequentially transporting, or "pipelining", telemetered MER data between disparate computer processes executed in parallel across multiple machine resources. Discussion touches fundamental aspects system's event-driven processing strategy provided autonomy its operation. Overviews interconnecting process streams are provided. In end, it is apparent reader MIPL designed a system product generating systems built with robustness meet requirements sufficient versatility expanding needs short order.